The Edinburgh Dungeon have launched a limited-edition range of three gruesome ice lollies with three body-fluid based flavours.

The blood, bile and phlegm flavour lollies were created by multi-sensory experts, Jelly & Gin, to announce the attraction’s seasonal summer show, ‘Escape the Plague’.

The not so n(ice) lollies - along with complimentary dungeon tickets - will be given out free of charge to the first 150 visitors who show up to the dungeon on Saturday, July 22, quoting the phrase: “Escape The Plague”.

A further 250 lollies will be served up at the Edinburgh Dungeon Fringe experience, ‘An Evening with the Plague Doctor’.

Edward Evans, General Manager at The Edinburgh Dungeon, said: “We want to give visitors to the Dungeon a true ‘taste’ of plague-ridden Edinburgh, and what better way to shout about our ‘Escape the Plague’ show than by getting people to immerse themselves in the experience.

“We can’t wait to challenge the taste-buds of those visiting the venue this weekend – some will be repulsed but others will be pleasantly surprised. Who knows, if the not so n(ice) lollies prove popular then they may become a regular summer feature at the Dungeon!”

The experts at Jelly & Gin researched 17th century Edinburgh to give the lollies as realistic a flavour as possible.

They were inspired by some gruesome historical cases, including people who resorted to cannibalism, and coupled this with The Four Humors theory, which states that the human body is filled with four basic substances – phlegm, blood, yellow bile and black bile.

This helped ensure the end results were truly reflective of the horrid tastes 17th century flesh-eaters would have experienced and of the vile bodily secretions of unfortunate plague victims:

  • BLOOD has a repulsively realistic, earthy, and metallic taste, designed to mimic the moist flavours a cannibal would have experienced when biting into the human heart
  • YELLOW BILE accurately offers up the sharp and bitter retch inducing taste of the greenish-brown alkaline fluid found inside the gall bladder
  • PHLEGM presents a salty sourness designed to mimic the taste profile of the human secretion typically laced with virus, bacteria, other debris, enhanced by chewy pieces of "sputum"